Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian
AIUI, from previous threads on the subject (the topic comes up every now and then), the moderators get together every so often to nominate and discuss candidates for promotion, and a limited few are duly promoted. If my experience in the TWC's CdeC is any guide, the discussion is entirely subjective, yet, because it's a process involving human scrutiny and not just automatic qualification by numbers, it's rigorous but fair, flexible enough to include many areas of contribution but strict enough to weed out undesirables.
Wonderful. Since an Admin is asking publically what users want I assume its an open topic for discussion. If it isnt then perhaps the thread should be locked.

Your post sounds pretty logical to me, however if there is room for growth why not have titles, badges or custom avatars? None of which would be unique to the Org and if a policy was adopted to obtain those rewards that might inspire less dissatisfaction with the current system and more compliance.

As far as the fairness part of it, as Tosa intimates there isnt a whole lot of signifigant difference for a senior member anyway. Maybe there should be? Maybe thats something forum members should want to aspire too? Having a completely arbitrary method by which to obtain this status further minimalizes its value.

Maybe you consider it rigorous and fair, but what if there are forum members here who think some of the mods/admin are idiots? Of course they could leave and frequent another forum but that hardly equates to value for the Org. Message boards usually stay afloat by the numbers they generate.

Anyway, I've said my piece on this. At least here at the org from time to time a mod/admin will pose the question for the community to address, that in itself has value.